Courses / Module

The focus of this summer school is on reflective writing practices and their role in emergent learning. Drawing on an encounter with the thought of educationalist and writer Marion Milner, the week will centre on writing as a method of mindful inquiry, relating with openness and curiosity to the curriculum of daily experience. A method of free and reflective writing will be used to create the conditions for illuminating experience, often in the form of epiphany moments that are the hallmark of creative insight. A second focus is on considering reflective writing through the lens of mindfulness, creativity and embodied cognition.


Module Content:

This module will offer participants an opportunity to develop skills and perspectives associated with reflective writing. The summer school will centre on a number of intertwining strands and will offer a range of learning experiences, including:

• each day will foster a contemplative orientation towards learning by providing spaces for mindfulness practice, including meditation and mindful movement
• we will engage in a slow and dialogical process of reading Milner’s A Life of One’s Own in the light of theories of embodied and enactive cognition
• each day will offer a workshop space for different approaches to writing, including journaling, creative writing, walking as method, poetry as contemplative method
• a series of inputs from presenters across a range of academic disciplines on creativity, embodied cognition, psychodynamics of emergent knowledge